Slideshow: Scenes from the 2024 Tri-Valley Veterans Day Parade and Concert, held in downtown Pleasanton. (Photo by Chuck Deckert)
Veterans Day Parade
The 28th annual Tri-Valley Veterans Day Parade and Concert will be returning to Pleasanton this weekend to commemorate the local military veterans and active service members ahead of the national holiday next Tuesday.
The theme for this year’s regional celebration, which will kick off Sunday (Nov. 9) at 1 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Building on Main Street, will be the U.S. Marine Corps.
“This parade is one way we can all say Thank You to Marines who have faithfully served our country,” according to the Tri-Valley Veterans Day Parade website. “The freedoms we enjoy in this country should not be taken for granted.”
Teacher award
The California Music Educators Association Bay Section recently awarded its 2025 Rising Star Educator Award to Amador Valley High School’s new director of orchestral and choir music, Brittany Shankle.
The Bay Area group, which is a regional affiliate of the state and national association for music educators, honors teachers with this award each year who have seven years or less of experience in the profession and who demonstrate “excellence in the field of music education”, according to the CMEA website.
Mental health forum
The city of Dublin’s Youth Advisory Committee will be hosting its Youth Mental Health Forum next Thursday (Nov. 13) at the Shannon Community Center, located at 11600 Shannon Ave., from 6-8 p.m.
Teens and parents are invited to attend the event to have “open conversation about youth mental health with local counselors, therapists, and educators,” according to a press release from the city.
Pirate history
National Geographic explorer and archeologist Lisa Brigss will be coming to Livermore’s Bankhead Theater next Thursday to talk about anything one of her deep fascinations, pirates, and how pirating helped shape the Roman Empire.
From Blackbeard to the Pirate Queen of China, Briggs will be going over some of history’s “greatest treasures and the pirates who ruled the ocean” as part of the theater’s Rae Dorough Speaker Series.
The event is set to start at 7:30 p.m. For tickets, visit www.livermorearts.org.
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